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    The document discusses how biodiversity has changed over time and the effects of biodiversity loss. It describes how organisms can modify their environment through niche construction and ecosystem engineering. It then explains the differences between biodiversity loss and biodiversity alteration. The document also provides a brief historical perspective on changes in biodiversity, outlining three major drivers: 1) hunting which likely drove the first extinctions of megafauna, 2) the development of agriculture which caused deforestation and ecosystem changes, and 3) the expansion of global trade which led to extinctions particularly on islands.

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    The document discusses how biodiversity has changed over time and the effects of biodiversity loss. It describes how organisms can modify their environment through niche construction and ecosystem engineering. It then explains the differences between biodiversity loss and biodiversity alteration. The document also provides a brief historical perspective on changes in biodiversity, outlining three major drivers: 1) hunting which likely drove the first extinctions of megafauna, 2) the development of agriculture which caused deforestation and ecosystem changes, and 3) the expansion of global trade which led to extinctions particularly on islands.

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    Group V: Niche Construction of Ecosystem Engineering

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    The document discusses how biodiversity has changed over time and the effects of biodiversity loss. It describes how organisms can modify their environment through niche construction and ecosystem engineering. It then explains the differences between biodiversity loss and biodiversity alteration. The document also provides a brief historical perspective on changes in biodiversity, outlining three major drivers: 1) hunting which likely drove the first extinctions of megafauna, 2) the development of agriculture which caused deforestation and ecosystem changes, and 3) the expansion of global trade which led to extinctions particularly on islands.

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    Biodiversity and Ecosystem

    Changes in Biodiversity and its Effect on Society GROUP


    GROUP V
    Alterations and Losses Brief Historical Perspective Recent Trends Effects of Biodiversity Loss

    Niche Construction of Ecosystem Engineering


    Processes where organisms modify the environment
    and as a result increase their fitness or affect resource
    availability to other species
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    Biodiversity and Ecosystem

    Changes in Biodiversity and its Effect on Society GROUP


    GROUP V
    Alterations and Losses Brief Historical Perspective Recent Trends Effects of Biodiversity Loss

    Biodiversity Loss Biodiversity Alteration


    Number of species created by Much of human action alters the species
    evolutionary processes occurs at a much composition and the relative species
    slower pace than the recent extinction abundances in an ecosystem, changing the
    rates, resulting to recent global species structure of communities, but may not lead
    extinctions (correspond to biodiversity to biodiversity loss at the regional or global
    loss) scale

    “Large alterations in abundance and trophic


    structure may cause net biodiversity loss”
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    Biodiversity and Ecosystem

    Changes in Biodiversity and its Effect on Society GROUP


    GROUP V
    Alterations and Losses Brief Historical Perspective Recent Trends Effects of Biodiversity Loss

    1. Hunting
    -first actions of humans with large-scale impacts
    on biodiversity
    - likely to have driven the first wave of species
    extinctions (i.e. megafauna) induced by humans
    starting 50,000 years BP
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    Biodiversity and Ecosystem

    Changes in Biodiversity and its Effect on Society GROUP


    GROUP V
    Alterations and Losses Brief Historical Perspective Recent Trends Effects of Biodiversity Loss

    2. Development of Agriculture
    • Crop and Animal Domestication
    • bring major ecosystem changes with the deforestation of large
    areas, changes in fire regime, the appropriation of primary
    productivity by humans, and the replacement of wild
    herbivores by domestic grazers.
    3. Expansion of global trade via maritime routes
    • all documented extinctions occurred on islands
    particularly bird extinctions

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